I would think as technology advances and more and more personal information is available, isn't it reasonable to require the government to have to at least prove the things that it is seeking are relevant in terrorism investigation and connect it to at least a suspected terrorist before they are allowed to go into all this huge amount of private material?
Leahy questions the government's authority to collect personal data without proving relevance.
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